Integrating electronic and traditional retail

a technology applied in the field of electronic and traditional retail, can solve the problems of blocking the direct internet access of personal shopping devices and personal shopping devices, and achieve the effect of facilitating the purchase of goods and facilitating the display of goods

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-07-06
EPICENT HLDG
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[0005] It is another object of the present invention to provide such a retail method that facilitates the purchase of goods by a consumer from multiple different retailers.
[0006] Another object of the present invention is to provide a method that facilitates the display of goods at retail locations by retail entities having no access to traditional brick-and-mortar retailing.

Problems solved by technology

Generally, personal shopping devices may not be used to access the Internet, for example, to download Web pages or transfer email messages.
Instead, the personal shopping devices are blocked from having direct access to the Internet via the dedicated electronic shopping network.

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[0050] As illustrated in FIG. 1, a retail facility or location 10 offers a shopping area in which customers make purchases through customer-operated electronic purchasing stations or kiosks 16, 18. Alternatively, customers make purchases with a hand-held electronic personal shopping device (PSD) 52 discussed in detail hereinafter with reference to FIG. 4.

[0051] Optionally, retail facility 10 may be located next to, or combine, a major entertainment attraction 12, which may be anything that draws many people, such as an arena or sports stadium, an airport terminal, a boat landing, a beachfront, a resort, a gambling casino, a horse race track, an historical or cultural attraction, a theme park, etc.

[0052] Some or all of the individual stores 14 in retail area 10 may be no-inventory or low-inventory walk-in display showcases. In the showcase stores, merchandise is displayed for customers to touch, study, sample, try on, color match, inspect, and the like, but there is no requirement ...

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Abstract

A business method utilizes a dedicated electronic shopping network having a database and wireless receiving and transmitting components. The network is provided at a retail-type architectural facility where space is rented to a plurality of independent retail entities. For each respective one retail entity, data pertaining to goods offered for sale by the respective one entity is loaded the database. Queries from hand-held electronic personal shopping devices pertaining to goods offered for sale by the retail entities are received via the wireless receiving components. The wireless transmitting components transmit, to the hand-held electronic personal shopping devices, data from the database responsive to respective queries.

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BACKGROUND [0001] Various aspects of the invention relate to retail stores, shopping areas, electronic retail commerce, and traditional retailing. [0002] U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 542,580 discloses a retail store or a collection of stores and a method of operating a retail store or collection of retail stores within a mall environment. A display stock of goods representative of the goods offered by any given one of the stores is arranged for display to customers that enter the store. For some or most of the offered goods, the given store may have essentially no inventory for immediate possession by customers. A self-serve electronic display terminal is provided at which a customer can choose from among the offered goods, and tender payment for the chosen goods. [0003] Embodiments of the retail method disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 542,580 incorporate one or more of the following features. The display stock may be chosen to cover a representative sample of...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q30/00G06K15/00G06Q20/00
CPCG06Q20/20G06Q20/343G06Q30/00G06Q30/06G06Q30/0605G06Q30/0625G06Q30/0635G07F7/00G07F7/02
Inventor GORDON, SHELDON M.GORDON, SCOTT J.LEE, ANTONY H.GAMBARDELLA, ANN L.CUCALON, CAMILO E.
Owner EPICENT HLDG
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